Posts by BadassBob

Heres the amp I use to drive my Electro Voices.  Its a 6B4G SE with a 6SL7 driver, and a 6AX5 rectifier.  The 6B4G is essentially a 6.3V 2A3 in an octal socket, they sound very close.  I built this one a couple years...

My coaxial EV 12TRXBs the day I brought them home.  I searched for cabinets for a good month.   Now I have them in 6cu ft Barzilay cabinets, powered by a 6B4G SET with a benchmark DAC1 as the source.  SET + high...

Build yourself a 2A3 SET and a pair of single-driver speakers...all the lovely mods you could ever want :).

Quote: Originally Posted by googleborg   not entirely sure why someone would want a single driver speaker...no crossover? Some people feel that a crossover filters out some of the goodness coming down...

I have this card in my Linux music server, and cannot adjust the volume through alsamixer...it behaves more like a line-level output instead of me being able to control the volume.  I recently purchased the card from the eBay...

  Quote: Originally Posted by ipm  Did you ever notice that the right price for an item is whatever a particular person is willing to pay?   For some people the HD800 are just as ridiculous...

Quote: Originally Posted by Leonardo Drummond      BadassBob, your DIY amp looks fantastic! The speakers look really nice as well, what are those small cones around the centre-plug? Are they...

This is my main rig, powered by a 3W 6B4G SET that I built about a year ago.  The 6B4G is basically a 6.3V 2A3 with an octal base, as opposed to the 4-pin on the 2A3.  They both sound pretty much the same, but I feel the...

Why are speakers part of the DBT-free section of this forum?  Every other site I regularly visit keeps the speaker forum separate from the cables/tweaks/DBT-free forum for obvious reasons.  I know this is a headphone site,...

Who not roll your own?  Mark Audio CHR-70s available from Madisound for $37 each, paired with the Dayton .25 cu ft cabs at Parts Express for $95 per pair.  Use a 1.5" x 4" port tube, and youll have a 4" full...